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Post-Historic Art: In memoriam.

Post-Historic Art was an artistic movement that stemmed from Binary Art and preceded Neo-Current Art. A conservative estimate states that the movement started in ERA 2 and lasted until the late ERA 40s. The first artist to use the term to describe her or his work was Cherish Yerlinger, a muralist from Dellinsmurth, Coralina who specialized in “nude, mostly homosexual depictions of famous war leaders making love with their enemy’s leaders.” Describing her work, Yerlinger stated that “Post-History basically started alongside the ERA and the Public Record, I’d say. History stopped being relevant once every historic event existed within the same space, and once the opinions of historians and scholars held the same weight as anybody else on the Record. […] Current events and past events were, fairly instantaneously, all as relevant and irrelevant as each other, and each event’s importance was in competition with the importance of the entire human story. Content tends toward irrelevance quickly, then is moved by default into the Collective Memory.” […]

Yerlinger’s description of ‘Post-History’ catalyzed an art movement whose mission statement varied from artist to artist. The result was a non-cohesive mesh, ranging from artwork that refused any interpretation, to artists who asserted that they were finally the ones who could portray what ‘living in Post-Historic times’ truly meant. […] Subcategories of the artistic movement included the […] “Freeform Fiction” movement in literature, […] the “Relief Movement” in dance, and “Etherial Entertainment” in popular culture. […]

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